{"id":1207,"date":"2009-07-24T17:44:02","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T23:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/?p=1207"},"modified":"2009-07-24T17:56:58","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T23:56:58","slug":"big-crossover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2009\/07\/big-crossover.html","title":{"rendered":"Big Crossover!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"right\" title=\"Blogathon 2009\" alt=\"blogathon2009-mdm\" src=\"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/blogathon2009-mdm.jpg\" width=\"234\" height=\"60\"><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sort of kicking myself for not thinking to post about this here sooner, but better late than never.<\/p>\n<p>I am enrolled in this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogathon.org\/\">Blogathon<\/a>, where I&#8217;ll be posting every 30 minutes for 24 hours on behalf of a charity. (More explanation <a href=\"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/03\/stay-up-late-make-a-difference.html\">here<\/a>.) Just like a walk-a-thon or things like that, I&#8217;m looking for sponsorship in the form of pledges to the charity of my choice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When?<\/strong> 7 a.m. MDT Saturday, 25 July (i.e., tomorrow) through 7 a.m. MDT Sunday, 26 July<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where?<\/strong> On <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/\">my &#8220;normal&#8221; blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What about?<\/strong> I&#8217;ll be blogging <strong><em>comic book (mostly graphic novel \/ trade paperback) reviews<\/em><\/strong>, and related items (which means I&#8217;ll probably mention super-hero MMOs at least once)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Whom for?<\/strong> I&#8217;m blogging on behalf of the Denver <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ddfl.org\/\">Dumb Friends League<\/a>, our local animal shelter.<\/p>\n<p>If this sounds like a cool thing, you can support&nbsp;the effort by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogathon.org\/pledge.php?blogid=132\">pledging something<\/a>. The mechanics are all described <a href=\"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/03\/stay-up-late-make-a-difference.html\">here<\/a> &#8212; I never get to touch any of the money, and you&#8217;ll simply be sent a reminder afterward with a link of where to go online to make the donation. (And if you punk out,&nbsp;nobody will know except your conscience.) So far I&#8217;ve gotten $420-odd in pledges. Woot!<\/p>\n<p>Plus, there are <a href=\"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/23\/blogathon-now-with-prizes-for-pledges.html\">prizes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can also, if you want, come over and drop&nbsp;me a comment or two during the course of the day (or, especially, night). I&#8217;d appreciate it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Please consider if you can give something to <a href=\"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/09\/blogathon-2009-blogging-for-the-denver-dumb-friends-league.html\" target=\"_blank\">a<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/13\/stewardship-of-creation.html\" target=\"_blank\">very<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/19\/the-last-shelter.html\" target=\"_blank\">worthy<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/23\/blogathon-making-it-personal.html\" target=\"_blank\">cause<\/a>. Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sort of kicking myself for not thinking to post about this here sooner, but better late than never. I am enrolled in this year&#8217;s Blogathon, where I&#8217;ll be posting every 30 minutes for 24 hours on behalf of a charity. (More explanation here.) Just like a walk-a-thon or things like that, I&#8217;m looking for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2009\/07\/big-crossover.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Big Crossover!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-true-life","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1208,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions\/1208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}